Image Resizing Question

[Bruce Thompson]

Originally Posted by wforsyth

Bruce,
You should have way more room than that on your Word page. Maybe you can email an example of your work to someone, and they can help you figure out what is going on.
I believe if you divide the screen into pixels, you should be able to fit one 1200x1400 or so (guessing on the numbers), and two 640x480's, four 320x240's (something like that).

That's all I got.

Next.

Maybe I should do that.

The picture takes up nearly a whole page and though I take it at 640x480, MSWord actually reduces it by about 17% (I don't remember the pixels) when I import the pic. I then format the picture to 168x126. This seems best for my situation. For our Texas standard form, I can get 2 pictures of this size under the comment area without going under the checkbox list.

I dunno, mebee I gottabug.

[Michael R. Boyett]

Bruce, have you tried either of the two solutions mentioned above? Microsoft PowerToys Resizer or Irfanview? Both are simple, easy to use and do the batch resizing you are asking for.

[Marcel R. Cyr]

Originally Posted by gbeaumont

Hey Marcel,

the best choice for luddites like you is infranview, you can use it to edit single images or batch resize whole files of images. I use it to suck images straight from my camera and resize them into a working folder for my reports.

www.infranview.com

Regards

Gerry

Thanks Gerry and you to Todd, and could someone tell me what the hell a luddite is? ha. ha.

Marcel
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[Michael R. Boyett]

Perhaps the most famous uprising against technology was the Luddite movement of England. According to Rybczynski (1983), the Luddites, named after King Ludd, or Ned Ludd, organized against technological advances in the textile industry in the Regency area of England from 1811-1816. History shows rejection of not just technology, but rejection of technology which was seen as threatening to their way of life and livelihood. As a precursor to modern day labor unions, one author called it, "collective bargaining by riot" (p. 41). It ended when the English Parliament dispatched 12,000 soldiers and the leaders of the movement were either executed or deported to Australia (p. 41). A similar but separate uprising in 1830 led to the destruction of threshing machines by farm workers in the English countryside.

[gbeaumont]

"collective bargaining by riot"

Michael, that is funny I have to remember that one.

This is what I was taught many moons ago, the Luddites named after Mr Ludd were employed in the textile mills in the North of England,they were very upset that increasing mechanisation was putting them out of work as fewer semi skilled workers were required to run the looms, they expressed their collective angst by sabotaging the said looms.

I believe that the saying "putting a spanner (wrench) in the works" also comes from this era.

Such is the price of progress.

Regards

Gerry

[Bruce Thompson]

Originally Posted by mboyett

Bruce, have you tried either of the two solutions mentioned above? Microsoft PowerToys Resizer or Irfanview? Both are simple, easy to use and do the batch resizing you are asking for.

I've not done it yet. I've actually been trying a couple of other suggestions first. But it's on my list!

Thanks. Hopefully I can get this thing resolved before too long.

On a side note: I downloaded a trial version of the InspectIt software for Texas. It works within MS Word. It still has the same issue; when I import an image, it takes up the whole page and I still have to downsize each image individually.

Got to check out PowerToys!

[Bruce Thompson]

OK, I just tried PowerToys. It does shrink the images; however, they are very blurry.

I just don't understand how MSWord has the ability to shrink an image and maintain it's sharpness and yet none of the 7 software programs I've tested are able to compete.

The saga continues...